Thesaurus:thingy
English
Synonyms
- Sorted by number of Google hits
- Sorted alphabetically
- doodadiddlumwhatapopfloppy
- thingmy (chiefly Scotland)
- thingum (archaic)
- whatsaname [WS]
- whatsitsname (UK)
- whiff-whaff (UK)
- yoke (Irish)
Hypernyms
See also
- Thesaurus:whatshisname (person)
- Category:English placeholder terms
Placeholder name on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- “565. misnomer” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “thingy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- (widget*0.15), (gimmick*0.5), hickey, gizmo, thingy, thingie, jigger, gismo, gubbins, whatsit at Google Ngram Viewer
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